Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
Author: Sarah Nooter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009320351

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
Author: Sarah Nooter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009320386

This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice. Whether carved in stone or wood, printed onto a page, beat out by a mimetic or rhythmic body, or humming in the mind, poems are meant to engrave and adhere. Ancient Greek poetry exhibits a particularly acute awareness of change, decay, and the ephemerality inherent in mortality. Yet it couples its presentation of this awareness with an offering of meaningful embodiment in shifting forms that are aligned with, yet subtly manipulative of, mortal time. Sarah Nooter's argument ranges widely across authors and genres, from Homer and the Homeric Hymns through Sappho and Archilochus to Pindar and Aeschylus. The book will be compelling reading for all those interested in Greek literature and in poetry more broadly.

Radical Formalisms

Radical Formalisms
Author: Sarah Nooter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350377449

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy-both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition-the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order. This collection not only provides new, provocative insights into a corpus of texts that has exerted a lasting impact on modern literature and philosophy, but also challenges current interpretive methods, recasting the very practice of reading in relation to form, poetics, language, sound, temporalities and textuality.

Sappho and Homer

Sappho and Homer
Author: Melissa Mueller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491707

Brings two of ancient Greece's most famous poets into conversation with contemporary theorists of gender, sexuality, and affect studies.

A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies

A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies
Author: Anna A. Novokhatko
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3111578224

Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies. It is intended as a stocktaking of various branches of Classics, such as literary criticism and poetics, linguistics, ancient history and archaeology. Four major research areas or clusters have been chosen for the presentation of the chapters. Chapter one discusses recent studies of 'cognitive' materiality and material agency in relation to the human mind, chapter two the so-called 'spatial turn' and cognition and the perception of space in place in relation to antiquity, chapter three imagination and vision and cognitive approaches to seeing, while chapter four considers experience and experientiality and the 'sensory turn' as applied to ancient sources. Finally, the fifth chapter is a special case and a different medium: it consists of three interviews with three well-known pioneers of the study of emotions in antiquity, David Konstan, Angelos Chaniotis and Douglas Cairns, who in various direct and indirect ways have greatly influenced the interplay and dialogue between classical studies and cognitive approaches in recent decades. This book takes stock of a rapidly developing and highly controversial field that is currently in full bloom.

The Sound of Writing

The Sound of Writing
Author: Christopher Cannon
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 142144724X

"This work provides an interdisciplinary and historical exploration of various techniques leveraging writing in order to capture sound. Collectively, the essays in this work focus on questions of language and expression as much as the method and theory of both sound and writing"--

Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period

Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
Author: Neil Hopkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1994-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521423137

This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.

History of Ancient Greek Literature

History of Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Franco Montanari
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1211
Release: 2022-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110426323

This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity, particularly well-suited for use in the classroom.

Anthropology and the Greeks

Anthropology and the Greeks
Author: S.C. Humphreys
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136549773

The first section of the book deals with the history of the relationship of classical studies and anthropology. In the second section the more material aspects of ancient Greek life are considered and the author relates the economic history of the period to new approaches in archaeology and economic anthropology. The place of kinship in the social structure of the Greek city-state; the social factors involved in the genesis of Greek philosophy; and the structural and institutional components of 'freedom' in classical Athens are all examined. First published in 1978.